On Nov 20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fundamental) wrote: > my crontabs wont run ...? > > i login as root, type crontab -e and they come up, but they dont run ... am > i doing something wrong? or is there another way of doing cronjobs on debian > 1.1 ?
Nope, I screwed up the postinstall when I converted to the new source format, and cron doesn't get started automatically. Try these two commands to correct the problem: update-rc cron defaults /etc/init.d/cron start I'll be able to upload a corrected package after 12/28/96. Steve Greenland -- The Mole - I think, therefore I scream "If a man chooses to do evil... it becomes my sacred duty to bash him to a pulp." [Crime Crusher, an old 40's pulp superhero] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]